Definition of Chinese cinnamon

1. Noun. Aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark.

Exact synonyms: Cassia Bark
Group relationships: Cassia, Cassia-bark Tree, Cinnamomum Cassia
Generic synonyms: Bark

Medical Definition of Chinese cinnamon

1. Cinnamomum cassia Nees (family Lauraceae); the unofficial source of most of the cinnamon in the shops; the source of cinnamon oil. Synonym: Chinese cinnamon. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinese Cinnamon

Chinese boxes
Chinese broccoli
Chinese brown sauce
Chinese burn
Chinese burns
Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbages
Chinese celery
Chinese character
Chinese characters
Chinese checkers
Chinese chequers
Chinese chess
Chinese chestnut
Chinese chive
Chinese cinnamon
Chinese compliment
Chinese compliments
Chinese cork oak
Chinese cypress
Chinese date
Chinese dates
Chinese deity
Chinese desert cat
Chinese desert cats
Chinese dragon
Chinese dragons
Chinese edible frog
Chinese eight-ball
Chinese elm

Literary usage of Chinese cinnamon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1890)
"chinese cinnamon. IT is generally supposed that chinese cinnamon is the same thing as cassia, but there is reason to believe that this is not the case. ..."

2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"Ou the Continent it is termed chinese cinnamon; and although derived, as we have seen, from a different plant and having a different geographical source, ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1889)
"Ceylon cinnamon yields from | to 1 per cent, of oil, and chinese cinnamon from J to 1J per cent. The oil of Ceylon cinnamon is a pale yellow or reddish ..."

4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The trees yielding cassia or chinese cinnamon are of several undetermined ... chinese cinnamon proper is the product of a wild tree growing in Annam, ..."

5. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"chinese cinnamon ; also called Cassia bark. ... Also, cinnamon, the pharmacopoeial name, USA, of both the Ceylon and the chinese cinnamon. ..."

6. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Francis Mills Turner, Daniel Deronda Berolzheimer, William Parker Cutter, John Helfrich, Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"(Cinnamon, Cassia bark, chinese cinnamon). Derivation: Bark of Cinnamomum cassia. Habitat: Southern China and Anam. Grades: Technical. Containers: Boxes. ..."

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